Posted by: jbauer
XBox 360 Live router hell - 07/06/2006 18:33
I'm sick of trying to get my NetScreen firewall to play nice with XBox Live. I'm gonna get a "Microsoft Certified" cheap-ie router. Please see this thread:
http://forums.xbox.com/4732157/ShowPost.aspxWhat do you guys/gals use?
- Thanx
- Jon
Posted by: matthew_k
Re: XBox 360 Live router hell - 07/06/2006 18:45
Seems like a complete load of cow manure. What exactly is so special about an xbox 360 that it needs a "microsoft certified" router?
It should be easy to forward the necessary ports. Doing this automatically can be handeled through upnp. Anything more than that that is just microsoft's usual extortionary bussiness practices.
Matthew
Posted by: matthew_k
Re: XBox 360 Live router hell - 07/06/2006 18:46
Oh. I use a wrt54g(l). If there's something a home network needs that it can't do, I don't know what it is.
Matthew
Posted by: BAKup
Re: XBox 360 Live router hell - 07/06/2006 19:12
I'm using a home-rolled iptables firewall, but about to throw it out and use a Linksys WRT54GS in its place, since I'm having weird issues with it.
Posted by: matthew_k
Re: XBox 360 Live router hell - 07/06/2006 19:43
You're forwarding both TCP and UDP packets?
Try putting the xbox as the DMZ host and see if it works.
Matthew
Posted by: jbauer
Re: XBox 360 Live router hell - 07/06/2006 21:07
I've got a dialog going with Major Nelson at XBox Live to try and sort this out. If I make progress, I'll post it here.
- Thanx
- Jon
Posted by: jbauer
Re: XBox 360 Live router hell - 08/06/2006 03:09
From the description on that web page:
Strict NAT means the port-assignment policy is aggressive.
What the heck does that mean? Aggressive???
- Jon